Breelyn Wilky, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine-Medical Oncology

Professional Titles

• Director of Sarcoma Medical Oncology
• Deputy Associate Director for Clinical Research
• The Cheryl Bennett and McNeilly Family Endowed Chair in Sarcoma Research

Research Interests

Publications

• Gounder M, Ratan R, Alcindor T, Schöffski P, van der Graaf WT, Wilky BA, Riedel RF, Lim A, Smith LM, Moody S, Attia S, Chawla S, D'Amato G, Federman N, Merriam P, Van Tine BA, Vincenzi B, Benson C, Bui NQ, Chugh R, Tinoco G, Charlson J, Dileo P, Hartner L, Lapeire L, Mazzeo F, Palmerini E, Reichardt P, Stacchiotti S, Bailey HH, Burgess MA, Cote GM, Davis LE, Deshpande H, Gelderblom H, Grignani G, Loggers E, Philip T, Pressey JG, Kummar S, Kasper B. Nirogacestat, a ?-Secretase Inhibitor for Desmoid Tumors. N Engl J Med. 2023 Mar 9;388(10):898-912. PubMed PMID: 36884323
• Wilky BA, Maleddu A. Much Ado about ASPS: The Rapidly Changing Treatment Paradigms of 2022. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Apr 3;29(7):1163-1166. PubMed PMID: 36692840
• Carter BM, Bronsert MR, Wilky BA, McCarter MD. Mucosal Ulceration in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor is an Independent Predictor of Progression-Free Survival. J Surg Res. 2022 Dec 30;284:221-229. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36587482
• Stacchiotti S, Maria Frezza A, Demetri GD, Blay JY, Bajpai J, Baldi GG, Baldini EH, Benjamin RS, Bonvalot S, Bovée JVMG, Callegaro D, Casali PG, D'Angelo SP, Davis EJ, Dei Tos AP, Demicco EG, Desai J, Dileo P, Eriksson M, Gelderblom H, George S, Gladdy RA, Gounder MM, Gupta AA, Haas R, Hayes A, Hohenberger P, Jones KB, Jones RL, Kasper B, Kawai A, Kirsch DG, Kleinerman ES, Le Cesne A, Maestro R, Martin Broto J, Maki RG, Miah AB, Palmerini E, Patel SR, Raut CP, Razak ARA, Reed DR, Rutkowski P, Sanfilippo RG, Sbaraglia M, Schaefer IM, Strauss DC, Strauss SJ, Tap WD, Thomas DM, Trama A, Trent JC, van der Graaf WTA, van Houdt WJ, von Mehren M, Wilky BA, Fletcher CDM, Gronchi A, Miceli R, Wagner AJ. Retrospective observational studies in ultra-rare sarcomas: A consensus paper from the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) community of experts on the minimum requirements for the evaluation of activity of systemic treatments. Cancer Treat Rev. 2022 Nov;110:102455. PubMed PMID: 36031697
• Moreno Tellez C, Leyfman Y, D'Angelo SP, Wilky BA, Dufresne A. Immunotherapy in Sarcoma: Where Do Things Stand?. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2022 Jul;31(3):381-397. PubMed PMID: 35715140
• Florou V, Wilky BA. Emerging mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance in sarcomas. Cancer Drug Resist. 2022;5(1):199-213. PubMed PMID: 35582530
• Kasper B, Wilky BA. Sounding the Alarm on Leiomyosarcoma Recurrence: Role of Circulating Tumor DNA. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Jun 13;28(12):2480-2481. PubMed PMID: 35412607
• Nathenson MJ, Hu J, Ratan R, Somaiah N, Hsu R, DeMaria PJ, Catoe HW, Pang A, Subhawong TK, Amini B, Sweet K, Feister K, Malik K, Jagannathan J, Braschi-Amirfarzan M, Sheren J, Caldas Y, Moreno Tellez C, Rosenberg AE, Lazar AJ, Maki RG, Benedetto P, Cohen J, Trent JC, Ravi V, Patel S, Wilky BA. Systemic Chemotherapies Retain Antitumor Activity in Desmoid Tumors Independent of Specific Mutations in CTNNB1 or APC: A Multi-institutional Retrospective Study. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Sep 15;28(18):4092-4104. PubMed PMID: 35180772
• Kerr DA, Brcic I, Diaz-Perez JA, Shih A, Wilky BA, Pretell-Mazzini J, Subhawong TK, Nielsen GP, Rosenberg AE. Immunohistochemical Characterization of Giant Cell Tumor of Bone Treated With Denosumab: Support for Osteoblastic Differentiation. Am J Surg Pathol. 2021 Jan;45(1):93-100. PubMed PMID: 32773532
• Smith BD, Kaufman MD, Wise SC, Ahn YM, Caldwell TM, Leary CB, Lu WP, Tan G, Vogeti L, Vogeti S, Wilky BA, Davis LE, Sharma M, Ruiz-Soto R, Flynn DL. Vimseltinib: A Precision CSF1R Therapy for Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumors and Diseases Promoted by Macrophages. Mol Cancer Ther. 2021 Nov;20(11):2098-2109. PubMed PMID: 34433663
• Florou V, Puri S, Garrido-Laguna I, Wilky BA. Considerations for immunotherapy in patients with cancer and comorbid immune dysfunction. Ann Transl Med. 2021 Jun;9(12):1035. PubMed PMID: 34277835
• Subhawong TK, Feister K, Sweet K, Alperin N, Kwon D, Rosenberg A, Trent J, Wilky BA. MRI Volumetrics and Image Texture Analysis in Assessing Systemic Treatment Response in Extra-Abdominal Desmoid Fibromatosis. Radiol Imaging Cancer. 2021 Jul;3(4):e210016. PubMed PMID: 34213370
• Florou V, Wilky BA. Current Management of Angiosarcoma: Recent Advances and Lessons From the Past. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2021 Jun 7;22(7):61. PubMed PMID: 34097172
• Stacchiotti S, Frezza AM, Blay JY, Baldini EH, Bonvalot S, Bovée JVMG, Callegaro D, Casali PG, Chiang RC, Demetri GD, Demicco EG, Desai J, Eriksson M, Gelderblom H, George S, Gounder MM, Gronchi A, Gupta A, Haas RL, Hayes-Jardon A, Hohenberger P, Jones KB, Jones RL, Kasper B, Kawai A, Kirsch DG, Kleinerman ES, Le Cesne A, Lim J, Chirlaque López MD, Maestro R, Marcos-Gragera R, Martin Broto J, Matsuda T, Mir O, Patel SR, Raut CP, Razak ARA, Reed DR, Rutkowski P, Sanfilippo RG, Sbaraglia M, Schaefer IM, Strauss DC, Sundby Hall K, Tap WD, Thomas DM, van der Graaf WTA, van Houdt WJ, Visser O, von Mehren M, Wagner AJ, Wilky BA, Won YJ, Fletcher CDM, Dei Tos AP, Trama A. Ultra-rare sarcomas: A consensus paper from the Connective Tissue Oncology Society community of experts on the incidence threshold and the list of entities. Cancer. 2021 Aug 15;127(16):2934-2942. PubMed PMID: 33910263
• Chang YC, Stoyanova R, Danilova S, Pretell-Mazzini JA, Kerr DA, Wilky BA, Subhawong T. Radiomics on radiography predicts giant cell tumor histologic response to denosumab. Skeletal Radiol. 2021 Sep;50(9):1881-1887. PubMed PMID: 33733693
• Kasper B, Achee A, Schuster K, Wilson R, van Oortmerssen G, Gladdy RA, Hemming ML, Huang P, Ingham M, Jones RL, Pollack SM, Reinke D, Sanfilippo R, Schuetze SM, Somaiah N, Van Tine BA, Wilky B, Okuno S, Trent J. Unmet Medical Needs and Future Perspectives for Leiomyosarcoma Patients-A Position Paper from the National LeioMyoSarcoma Foundation (NLMSF) and Sarcoma Patients EuroNet (SPAEN). Cancers (Basel). 2021 Feb 20;13(4). PubMed PMID: 33672607
• Kerr DA, Brcic I, Diaz-Perez JA, Shih A, Wilky BA, Pretell-Mazzini J, Subhawong TK, Nielsen GP, Rosenberg AE. Immunohistochemical Characterization of Giant Cell Tumor of Bone Treated With Denosumab: Support for Osteoblastic Differentiation. Am J Surg Pathol. 2021 Jan;45(1):93-100. PubMed PMID: 32773532
• Li L, Hu X, Eid JE, Rosenberg AE, Wilky BA, Ban Y, Sun X, Galoian K, DeSalvo J, Yue J, Chen XS, Blonska M, Trent JC. Mutant IDH1 Depletion Downregulates Integrins and Impairs Chondrosarcoma Growth. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Jan 6;12(1). PubMed PMID: 31935911
• Disel U, Madison R, Abhishek K, Chung JH, Trabucco SE, Matos AO, Frampton GM, Albacker LA, Reddy V, Karadurmus N, Benson A, Webster J, Paydas S, Cabanillas R, Nangia C, Ozturk MA, Millis SZ, Pal SK, Wilky B, Sokol ES, Gay LM, Soman S, Ganesan S, Janeway K, Stephens PJ, Zhu VW, Ou SI, Lovly CM, Gounder M, Schrock AB, Ross JS, Miller VA, Klempner SJ, Ali SM. The Pan-Cancer Landscape of Coamplification of the Tyrosine Kinases KIT, KDR, and PDGFRA. Oncologist. 2020 Jan;25(1):e39-e47. PubMed PMID: 31604903
• Li L, Hu X, Eid JE, Rosenberg AE, Wilky BA, Ban Y, Sun X, Galoian K, DeSalvo J, Yue J, Chen XS, Blonska M, Trent JC. Mutant IDH1 Depletion Downregulates Integrins and Impairs Chondrosarcoma Growth. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Jan 6;12(1). PubMed PMID: 31935911
• Disel U, Madison R, Abhishek K, Chung JH, Trabucco SE, Matos AO, Frampton GM, Albacker LA, Reddy V, Karadurmus N, Benson A, Webster J, Paydas S, Cabanillas R, Nangia C, Ozturk MA, Millis SZ, Pal SK, Wilky B, Sokol ES, Gay LM, Soman S, Ganesan S, Janeway K, Stephens PJ, Zhu VW, Ou SI, Lovly CM, Gounder M, Schrock AB, Ross JS, Miller VA, Klempner SJ, Ali SM. The Pan-Cancer Landscape of Coamplification of the Tyrosine Kinases KIT, KDR, and PDGFRA. Oncologist. 2020 Jan;25(1):e39-e47. PubMed PMID: 31604903
• Florou V, Wilky BA. Part I: The Immune Sarcoma Microenvironment: 3. Regulatory T Cells. In: Immunotherapy of Sarcoma. D’Angelo S, Pollack S (eds). Springer Nature. 2019
• Ramachandran I, Lowther DE, Dryer-Minnerly R, Wang R, Fayngerts S, Nunez D, Betts G, Bath N, Tipping AJ, Melchiori L, Navenot JM, Glod J, Mackall CL, D'Angelo SP, Araujo DM, Chow WA, Demetri GD, Druta M, Van Tine BA, Grupp SA, Abdul Razak AR, Wilky B, Iyengar M, Trivedi T, Winkle EV, Chagin K, Amado R, Binder GK, Basu S. Systemic and local immunity following adoptive transfer of NY-ESO-1 SPEAR T cells in synovial sarcoma. J Immunother Cancer. 2019 Oct 24;7(1):276. PubMed PMID: 31651363
• Kerr DA, Pinto A, Subhawong TK, Wilky BA, Schlumbrecht MP, Antonescu CR, Nielsen GP, Rosenberg AE. Pericytoma With t(7;12) and ACTB-GLI1 Fusion: Reevaluation of an Unusual Entity and its Relationship to the Spectrum of GLI1 Fusion-related Neoplasms. Am J Surg Pathol. 2019 Dec;43(12):1682-1692. PubMed PMID: 31567194
• Florou V, Rosenberg AE, Wieder E, Komanduri KV, Kolonias D, Uduman M, Castle JC, Buell JS, Trent JC, Wilky BA. Angiosarcoma patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a case series of seven patients from a single institution. J Immunother Cancer. 2019 Aug 8;7(1):213. PubMed PMID: 31395100
• Wilky BA. Immune checkpoint inhibitors: The linchpins of modern immunotherapy. Immunol Rev. 2019 Jul;290(1):6-23. PubMed PMID: 31355494
• Hall F, Villalobos V, Wilky B. Future directions in soft tissue sarcoma treatment. Curr Probl Cancer. 2019 Aug;43(4):300-307. PubMed PMID: 31229264
• Wilky BA, Trucco MM, Subhawong TK, Florou V, Park W, Kwon D, Wieder ED, Kolonias D, Rosenberg AE, Kerr DA, Sfakianaki E, Foley M, Merchan JR, Komanduri KV, Trent JC. Axitinib plus pembrolizumab in patients with advanced sarcomas including alveolar soft-part sarcoma: a single-centre, single-arm, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Jun;20(6):837-848. PubMed PMID: 31078463
• Florou V, Trent JC, Wilky BA. Precision medicine in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Discov Med. 2019 Nov-Dec;28(155):267-276. PubMed PMID: 32053767
• Trucco MM, Meyer CF, Thornton KA, Shah P, Chen AR, Wilky BA, Carrera-Haro MA, Boyer LC, Ferreira MF, Shafique U, Powell JD, Loeb DM. A phase II study of temsirolimus and liposomal doxorubicin for patients with recurrent and refractory bone and soft tissue sarcomas. Clin Sarcoma Res. 2018;8:21. PubMed PMID: 30410720
• Khazeni K, LaBove H, Wilky B, Rosenberg AE, Paulus E, Chim H, Pearson JM, Yakoub D. Myoepithelial carcinoma or epithelioid sarcoma - A rare diagnosis with poor prognosis. A case report and review of literature. Int J Surg Case Rep. 2018;49:239-243. PubMed PMID: 30053614
• Espejo AP, Ramdial JL, Wilky BA, Kerr DA, Trent JC. A nonrandom association of sarcoidosis in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor and other sarcomas. Rare Tumors. 2018;10:2036361318787626. PubMed PMID: 30038741
• Ramey SJ, Yechieli R, Zhao W, Kodiyan J, Asher D, Chinea FM, Patel V, Reis IM, Wang L, Wilky BA, Subhawong T, Trent JC 2nd. Limb-sparing surgery plus radiotherapy results in superior survival: an analysis of patients with high-grade, extremity soft-tissue sarcoma from the NCDB and SEER. Cancer Med. 2018 Sep;7(9):4228-4239. PubMed PMID: 30030882
• Ezuddin NS, Pretell-Mazzini J, Yechieli RL, Kerr DA, Wilky BA, Subhawong TK. Local recurrence of soft-tissue sarcoma: issues in imaging surveillance strategy. Skeletal Radiol. 2018 Dec;47(12):1595-1606. PubMed PMID: 29785452
• Sebio A, Wilky BA, Keedy VL, Jones RL. The current landscape of early drug development for patients with sarcoma in the immunotherapy era. Future Oncol. 2018 May;14(12):1197-1211. PubMed PMID: 29699407
• Alavi SN, Florou V, Tinoco G, Trent JC, Wilky BA. A precision medicine approach in sarcoma: identification of patients who may benefit from early use of pazopanib. Discov Med. 2018 Mar;25(137):131-144. PubMed PMID: 29641974
• Florou V, Wilky BA. Current and Future Directions for Angiosarcoma Therapy. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2018 Mar 8;19(3):14. PubMed PMID: 29520447
• Upadhyaya SA, McGee RB, Wilky BA, Broniscer A. Malignant progression of a peripheral nerve sheath tumor in the setting of rhabdoid tumor predisposition syndrome. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul;65(7):e27030. PubMed PMID: 29512865
• Muir L, Woelfle J, Wilky BA. High grade sarcoma presenting as multifocal recurrent seromas after inguinal hernia repair: A case report. Rare Tumors.
• Florou V, Puri S, Garrido-Laguna I, Wilky BA. Considerations for immunotherapy in patients with cancer and comorbid immune dysfunction. Ann Transl Med.

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Clinical Oncology, Member
• Connective Tissue Oncology Society, Member